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The Howard Dynasty Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Howard Dynasty Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$50k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$95kArts & Culture$60kYouth Development$45kInternational$25kPublic Safety & Disaster$20kAnimals$20kEducation$11kEnvironment$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$626k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GARY SINISE FOUNDATION$10,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE$10,000
KIDS IN NEED FOUNDATION$10,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$10,000
MANNA HOUSE$5,000
FRESNO MISSION$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%KINGS COMMUNITY ACTION ORGANIZATION: $15k → 18%A SENSE OF HOME: $10k → 14%GUIDE DOGS OF AMERICA: $20k → 14%VALLEY TEEN RANCH: $20k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

35%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$105k · 4 repeat orgs$191k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
12

Total granted

$105k
$161k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-10%
+6%

Still filing today

75%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationFood & NutritionArts & CulturePhilanthropyEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE
    3× · 2022–2025 · $35k
  • GARY SINISE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $30k · revenue +5%
  • WF
    WILDLAND FIREFIGHTER FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2022 · $20k · revenue -10%

Funded once

  • TH
    THE HEART OF THE HORSE
    one grant, 2020 · $40k
  • VT
    Valley Teen Ranchgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +443%
  • IG
    International Guiding Eyes Inc DBA Guide Dogs of America
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue -9%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Tahoe Nordic Search & Rescue Inc

The tahoe nordic search and rescue team (tnsar) ... was conceived in 1976 as a response to the death of a boy lost off the back side of northstar-at-tahoe ski area during a blizzard. there was, at the time, no organized backcountry team to…

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2
Wayfinder Family Services

The mission of Wayfinder Family Services is to ensure that children, youth and adults facing challenges always have a place to turn. Founded in 1953 as the Foundation for the Junior Blind, the organization initially enabled visually…

Human Services
3
Colorado State Fire Chiefs

The vision of the csfc is to partner with the fire service and supplier partners across the state of colorado in their efforts to protect all of colorado's life and property from fire and other disasters. it is a dynamic organization,…

Public Safety & Disaster
4
California Court Appointed Special Advocate Association

California casa was founded in 1987. its mission is to ensure that children and youth in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems have both a voice and the services they need to thrive. we achieve this by strengthening and empowering…

Civil Rights
5
Food in Need of Distribution Inc

Food in need of distribution, inc. (find food bank) is dedicated to relieving hunger, the causes of hunger, and the problems associated with hunger through awareness, education, and mobilization of resources and community involvement.

Food & Nutrition
6
Stanford Youth Solutions dba Stanford Sierra Youth & Families

To help solve the most challenging issues facing youth and families in northern california by providing tailored services from counseling and therapy to alternative placements with an end result of permanently connecting our young clients…

Human Services
7
Kids in Distress Inc

The mission of the corporation is to prevent child abuse, preserve the family, and treat children who have been abused and neglected.

Human Services
8
Child Crisis Arizona

To provide children and youth in arizona a safe environment, free from abuse and neglect, by creating strong and successful families.

Crime & Legal
9
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
10
Karsh Family Social Service Center Inc

Guided by jewish values, the karsh family social service center improves the lives of the underserved by providing critical and accessible social services through direct service or collaboration with other providers, (continued on schedule…

Human Services
11
Fresh Lifelines for Youth Inc

Fly's mission is to partner with youth to unlock their potential, disrupt the pipeline to prison, and advance justice in california and beyond. fly envisions a country where all kids grow up valued and supported, and the pipeline to prison…

Youth Development
12
Firefighters Burn Institute

Burn survivor recovery support - the firefighters burn institute (ffbi) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization founded by sacramento fire captain cliff haskell and the sacramento area fire fighters local 522 in 1973, for the purpose of…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ticket to Dream Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Hillside Ptc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 20 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
8/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE HEART OF THE HORSE: $40,000 · OtherTHE HEART OF THE HORSERONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $35,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSESOROPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL-THE SIERR: $15,000 · OtherSOROPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL-THE SIERRCAST (CATCH A SPECIAL THRILL) FOR KIDS FOUNDATION: $15,000 · OtherCAST (CATCH A SPECIAL THRILL) FOR KIDS FOUNDATIONMANNA HOUSE: $5,000 · OtherYOSEMITE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherYOSEMITE FOUNDATIONTICKET TO DREAM FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherTICKET TO DREAM FOUNDATIONFRESNO RESCUE MISSION INC: $5,000 · Other+2 more: $5,000 · OtherValley Teen Ranch: $20,000 · Human ServicesValley Teen RanchInternational Guiding Eyes Inc DBA Guide Dogs of America: $20,000 · Human ServicesInternational Guiding Ey…KINGS COMMUNITY ACTION ORGANIZATION INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesKINGS COMMUNITY ACTION O…A SENSE OF HOME: $10,000 · Human ServicesA SENSE OF HOMEGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $30,000 · PhilanthropyGARY SINISE…WILDLAND FIREFIGHTER FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EnvironmentGIVE KIDS ART: $20,000 · Arts & CultureKIDS IN NEED FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationHillside PTC: $1,000 · EducationSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $10,000 · Religion
Other$140,000Human Services$65,000Philanthropy$30,000Environment$20,000Arts & Culture$20,000Education$11,000Religion$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetValley Teen Ranch: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetInternational Guiding Eyes Inc DBA Guide Dogs of America: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWILDLAND FIREFIGHTER FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGIVE KIDS ART: $20,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetCAST (CATCH A SPECIAL THRILL) FOR KIDS FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetKINGS COMMUNITY ACTION ORGANIZATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA SENSE OF HOME: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYOSEMITE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTICKET TO DREAM FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRESNO RESCUE MISSION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOOD BANK: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Bank of America C…Amazonsmile Foundation
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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Howard Dynasty Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Howard Dynasty Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Howard Dynasty Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Howard Dynasty Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 20 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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